March 15, 200818 yr Does anyone know of some good exercises for the beginner/intermediate for developing relative pitch, identifying chords, singing melodies etc. using a piano?
March 16, 200818 yr There is a very good program (free as well), called GNU Solfege. Also, there is a book by Samuel Adler called "Sight Singing" or something, and also a book by Hindemith on musicians' training.
March 16, 200818 yr Wow, looks like a pretty helpful program :D ... although the drawback is that it does not run on Mac :dry:
March 17, 200818 yr Wow, looks like a pretty helpful program :D... although the drawback is that it does not run on Mac :dry: GNU Solfege - free ear training software | Solfege / InstallingSolfege
March 17, 200818 yr GNU Solfege - free ear training software | Solfege / InstallingSolfege I got 10.3.9 :laugh: Although I am planning on buying that cute black MacBook :)
March 17, 200818 yr Sight singing helps, I've found, as does listening to music while reading the score. For recognising intervals it's sometimes useful to remember intervals by a tune - for example I learnt the sound of a perfect fifth from the first two notes in the Star Wars theme :D
March 17, 200818 yr Yeah, sight-singing is good :) Kodaly's method is also pretty good, as it works very simply and gradually and builds up your ear and singing. Uhm.. that's a fourth, Mark... :P
March 17, 200818 yr Yeah, sight-singing is good :)Kodaly's method is also pretty good, as it works very simply and gradually and builds up your ear and singing. Uhm.. that's a fourth, Mark... :P :huh: YouTube - John Williams Star Wars theme I disagree... :D
March 18, 200818 yr Oh, I meant the upbeat.. Yeah, the other two notes are a fifth indeed. But the upbeat is much more memorable than the other two notes. Anyway, the fifth is such a natural interval I don't think you'd actually need a song to remember it >_> It's weird, though, because a research my teacher back in Greece told me about showed that Greek children found it easier to sing the fourth and augmented fourth than the rest of Europe, while they had difficulties singing a fifth, which the rest of Europe managed just fine. Weird stuff...
March 18, 200818 yr Sometimes the most "natural" intervals can be the hardest to recognize, because they melt together so much. I've so often seen people who (after perfectly recognizing thirds, sixths, sevenths, tritoni, etc.) had the greatest trouble recognizing an octave :P
March 18, 200818 yr Hm.. maybe.. You could tell them to use the upbeat to "Let it snow" as a mnemonic song for an octave then, I assume :P
April 5, 200818 yr If' you (like me) can't compile source code, there is one thing you could do. If you're mac is new enough, then you could download an Ubuntu liveCD (or any other liveCD), then you can download it from there. True, you would have to re-download it every time you reboot, but it's not that big of a program. Other options are putting it on a thumb drive, or installing ubuntu (other linux distros). Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu
April 6, 200818 yr You can get Feather Linux on a USB stick, and DSL as well, you don't need to install such a heavy-weight (in terms of size) distro like ubuntu to get it working :)
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